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The effects of 12 weeks resistance training and vitamin D administration on neuromuscular joint, muscle strength and power in postmenopausal women.
Plain-language guide to PMID 38036018 (2024): double-blind randomized controlled trial of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.
Key Facts
- PMID
- 38036018
- Journal
- Physiology & behavior
- Year
- 2024
- Study type
- Randomized Controlled Trial
- Authors
- Haghighi AH et al. (5 authors)
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114419
What This Study Did, in Plain Language
What Was Tested
Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in this randomized controlled trial publication.
This study aimed to examine the effects of 12 weeks of resistance training (RT) and vitamin D (VitD) supplementation on muscle strength and C-terminal agrin fragment (CAF) and Neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) concentrations as potential biomarkers in postmenopausal women.
Who Took Part
PubMed tags the participants as women only.
Forty-four healthy postmenopausal women (55.84 ± 4.70 years and 29.61 ± 4.26 kg/m2) were randomly assigned into four groups: (1) Resistance training + placebo (RT + PLA), (2) Vitamin D supplementation (VitD), (3) Resistance training + vitamin D (RT + VitD), and (4) Placebo (PLA).
How the Study Was Run
In design terms this was a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study.
Random assignment meant chance, not the researchers, decided who got Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc and who got the comparison, which limits bias.
Blinding on both sides kept the participants and researchers unaware of who received Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.
A placebo (an inactive look-alike) gave the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc group a baseline to be compared against.
This was a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study.
What Was Measured
PubMed files the paper under topics including Vitamin D, Postmenopause, Resistance Training, Muscle Strength, Dietary Supplements, Biomarkers and Polyesters.
The authors tagged it with the keywords Agrin, Muscular power, NT-3, Neuromuscular junction and Strength training.
What This Means in Plain Language
The paper is a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.
Results are reported in around 6 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.
The publication is from 2024 (Physiology & behavior), a journal based in United States.
More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.
Our Notes on the Compound
Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc: Magnesium is described as required for AMPK to function.
Related Pages
Source: PubMed record. This explanation is written by PeptideWhiz from the public record. For research and education only. Not medical advice; no dosing information is given.